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Geoff Carlisle

Teacher

Geoff Carlisle teaches eighth-grade science at a charter school in Austin and is a Teach Plus Texas teaching policy fellow.

Latest Columns

Public Education

We must protect LGBTQ students

By Geoff Carlisle, April 5, 2018

It’s time to design Texas schools to protect LGBTQ students, and to end the culture of silence that harms their health and wellbeing. It’s time for Texas to join the rest of the nation and stop condemning homosexuality as unacceptable and criminal. It’s time to repeal the No Promo Homo laws.

Public Education

Misguided bathroom legislation would endanger students

By Geoff Carlisle, March 7, 2017

SB6 puts public school teachers like me in a precarious position. Environment has an enormous effect on a student’s ability to learn, and legislation that denies any student the right to a safe educational setting must be stopped.